Spain: Colombia investigating whether reporter was kidnapped
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Spain's foreign minister says Colombian authorities are trying to confirm whether a journalist who went missing over the weekend in a lawless region of Colombia was kidnapped.
Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo told reporters in Brussels Monday that Spanish officials are in contact with Colombian authorities trying to find Salud Hernandez-Mora. She is a longtime correspondent for Spain's El Mundo newspaper and a columnist for the Bogota daily El Tiempo
Colombia's military is searching for Hernandez-Mora, who was on assignment in El Tarra in the volatile Catatumbo region of northern Colombia.
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Witnesses told the newspaper that she was last seen Saturday arguing with an unidentified man before taking a motorcycle to an unknown destination. The town's mayor said it is possible she was taken hostage.
Garcia-Margallo says Hernandez-Mora also holds Colombian citizenship.